Adrien Alsobrook
Room E206
Date
3-30-15 to 4-2-15
Lesson Plan
Grade/Subject
AP Language and Comp
Period
2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Guiding Question: How does literature shape or reflect society?
What makes American Literature American?
What is the relationship between literature and place?
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Objectives: Students will be able to:
 Determine the significance of a historical time period to a text
 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of a text
 Determine an author’s purpose for writing and analyze how he achieves this purpose
 Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth –century foundational works of Am. Lit
Activity:
LIT 1, 2
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Monday
LIT 1, 2
Tuesday
LIT 2, 5
Wednesday
LIT 2, 5
Thursday
Friday
The Fireside Poets – continued
Longfellow, Bryant and Holmes
(rhyme, meter, mood)
 Handouts – Meter and explication
 Edgar Allan Poe – “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Critical Reading Question p, 310 2, 4, and 5
 Discuss writing prompt p. 320 – claim/
evidence/reasons from the text.
 “The Raven” – short synopsis
 Outliers discussion
 Brainstorm American outliers in categories
 6 Word Memoirs – 6 Word Success Stories
 Share Columnist article in groups
 Turn in first Columnist article
 Introduction to Transcendentalists
Documentary pm Transcendentalism – Realism to
Naturalism
 No School – Easter Holiday
Resources: Outliers, Question handouts (How to Explicate a Poem), Determining Meter,
Instructions for 6 word success stories: http://www.smithteens.com/
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Assessment: Questions, quizzes, discussions, writing, Power Point
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Assignment: 3-30
3-31
4-1
4-2
Read “The Fall of the House of Usher for tomorrow
Read Outliers to the end by Friday
Columnist article #1 due tomorrow – no late takes – even for illness
6 Word Success Story due Tuesday, 4-7
Work on Outliers packet – due on Socratic Seminar day
Read Emerson “On Nature” and “Self Reliance”
Read Thoreau “ On Civil Disobedience and “On Walden Pond”
(376-389)